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VoLTE doesn't even make sense to use from a network provider's perspective. 3g architecture already exists and isn't going anywhere soon while people still have 3G phones. Calls generally aren't made over 3G to this day, they're made over 2G. Since frequency spectrum is so expensive and limited, packet sizes need to be as small as possible...so unless they can fit more people on an LTE voice channel compared to a 3G voice channel, the networks aren't going to be jumping to use VoLTE. LTE should be focused on data for right now, and keep 3G for voice. When was the last time someone said, "Gee, I wish my call was faster!" anyways?

The point that keeping the phone in 3G for voice and LTE for data will drain your battery doesn't make sense to me. Keep the phone in a 3G state for SMS, voice, and push notification type data interactions, and when data is used, then it would utilize LTE. That would actually SAVE battery life, since as the article states, LTE is a battery hog.
The problems should be blatantly obvious to developers who have used languages other than JavaScript and PHP (which both have many of the same flaws).

Once you've studied and used languages like C, C++, Python, Java, C#, Haskell, Scheme, Erlang and Standard ML, you'll see what we mean when we say that JavaScript is a very flawed language. Pick any of its features, and compare that feature to the equivalent feature in the other languages. JavaScript's approach will generally be the worst of all of them.
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Thanks, thats on the roadmap. We'll be able to turn the 3D css to pngs soon.
So if I understand this correctly, 4G, despite having higher bandwidth, results in either bad voice quality, or a 2-4 second delay? Voice quality over the phone has been good for a 100 years, and now they can't match it with a higher bandwidth? Back to the drawing board I say!
Of these developers, how many of them have any real experience with languages like C++, Java, C#, Scheme, Haskell and Erlang?

It's easy to find JavaScript developers who love JavaScript solely because it's the only language they know. But once you start dealing with JavaScript developers who have a wider understanding of what various programming languages offer, the problems with JavaScript become much more obvious, and the hatred for JavaScript becomes immense.
Great work guys. Easy to use website with a clear design. Love the product and will be ordering at least one.
It could be a useful addition to your repertoire of languages (most employers will recognise the benefit of having experience of some different languages even if they're employing for just one). However personally, I would play to your strengths and if anything concentrate on improving your knowledge of Android, this will likely help consolidate your existing Java knowledge. Even now there are still much more jobs looking for core language experience than mobile.

Java skills are very much in demand, and you are in a good position if you have decent experience of the language - if you do go down that route I would make sure you have some knowledge of Java EE, infrastructure frameworks like Spring and Hibernate and front-end web frameworks like GWT, JSF etc.

You don't say where you are from but I'm guessing the UK - There are usually a few Java jobs to be found in London and Cambridge as well as the M4 corridor areas.
You're right, I could have done a better point of communicating your last paragraph.

The point of this piece was to serve as a rebuttal to the handwavy notion that design is purely subjective. Of course design has subjective aspects—humans are subjective creatures, and we design for them. You're spot on with the statement that professionals have the approaches and tools for evaluating design choices.

The little-league-ers, in my experience, rely on subjective statements ("It looks / it feels") more often than the ones who have depth. As a designer, my responsibility to my client is to be able to explain why my choice is in service of their business goals. More often than not, it sounds like a chain of justifications up the hierarchy of needs. Sometimes it's a conscious choice that is worse because something else has higher priority. It takes some practice to articulate, but there's rarely a choice that isn't related to your other choices, which are in turn related to your constraints. If you can't tie a choice to that chain, then it might just be that it doesn't matter, but more often than not it's a red flag that your choice isn't grounded in conscious thought about what makes your thing better.
He doesn't really care about business. From memory he was originally very cautious about monetising the original apple. His perspective isn't "why this would be good business for apple", it's "why this would be cool for me".
The linked article claims that metronomes start 'pairing up' with their nearest neighbors saying that "strongest forces on a metronome will initially be from its nearest neighbors." But if the forces are spread by the string-suspended table swaying back and forth, I wouldn't expect adjacent metronomes to be significantly more connected than further away ones. Instead, I wonder if we just happen to be better at noticing metronome synchronicity when the metronomes are adjacent. Any pairs that formed several steps away would escape our notice.
It sounds as if you get some real value out of all then facebook likes..

Since I'm the last person (i think) on earth who doesn't use facebook, I probably miss the point but still..
I say this as a big fan of Apple, my Apple II+ and all that Woz created so brilliantly when he was there...

I think that your criticism above is the heart of the matter. If Woz had deep thoughts he were relating that informed in a meaningful way, great.

Instead, he tends to spew out populist geek one-liners without any supporting rationale.

What's disappointing is the way that the tech culture picks it up as an appeal to authority or noteworthy opinion.
You can also hit the arrow key down to get to Settings.
Jolla to build a 200M€ mobile alliance on MeeGo
As silly as it sounds I think most of these tools are just being overly appreciated by a group who (at least sub-consciously) think of themselves as cool/badass for having some hacker-style terminal in front of them, you know it's true.

Hit me all you want, but the same applies to Vim and Emacs for a large percentage of people who admire these tools.

People religiously defend them just because they are 20 something year old terminal GNU/Unixy programs.

If someone came up with Vim today, with a slick polished GUI interface, etc... you'd find far less people talking about how great it is and you'd find the same people who are appreciating them today, making fun of it.

I know that's a generalisation and doesn't involve everyone but I think it is not insignificant.

There are a minority who use and need the tool and appreciate it for what it is and have been long time users. For every 1 of those people, there are thousands more who simply follow the teachings of the cult to be in the cool nerds club.

There seems to be a pattern here, a recipe for a shitty (once useful) program that is no longer relevant that a group just doesn't want to let it go.

It kinda goes like this,

1. Be a 20-something year old program written by some GNU/Unix kernel/hardcore/early developer

2. Run in terminal with a million options and parameters

3. Be extensible with all sorts of weird text file configs, plugins etc...

4. Have a short weird-sounding name that is an abbreviation of some other weird phrase

That's all you need. Then no matter how terrible the user experience is and how outdated and irrelevant your program has become, you'll always have that cult who religiously love your program and insist on extending it so it can be a space shuttle as well as a text editor and an email client.

I should point out I'm not mocking any application in particular and I think many of these tools were fantastic for their times and some of them are still quite good today but my rant is towards this obsessive religious overly-appreciative culture of praising these softwares.

We are past that age of black screens and terminals and horrible user experiences. They were fine for their times but not anymore.
I'm not gonna put up with an application that is almost as old as myself and spend hours to configure it just to be a little more efficient.

The efficiency argument seems more like an excuse, because you don't want to admit that you are putting up with the downsides of the application because of all other nerd-culture reasons.

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Sometimes they're just trivial: see "Pet Rock".

Not to say that this particular project is, although it does look a bit faddish to me.
You are correct that "enabling hibernation" should have no effect on Windows 7 startup or shutdown performance, though I have no idea how quickly Windows 7 can enter and wake from hibernation with no user sessions open. While this would be easy enough to test, I also don't care: Windows Server 2008 R2 cold boots to a usable desktop in twelve seconds on my machine, which should be fast enough for anyone.
I'm sure there's a local community college that offers an associate's degree in something you don't have a degree in yet. Cheap tuition, night or online classes, and everyone can be a student.
If you hibernate in Windows 7, and then boot, it takes approximately the same period of time as "booting" in Windows 8 (with "Fast Startup" enabled).

I have tried it. I do know. In fact if you measure it "to desktop" then Windows 7 full hibernation beats Windows 8's fast startup, because Windows 7 caches user programs in additional to Microsoft's side (i.e. registry, services, kernel, etc).
On another note, I went to make a pair of them for a friend and her husband's anniversary, but he has very little hair and there is no kind way to not put hair on something like this.
It's interesting that Microsoft has multiple apps on Android (11) and iOS (23), Google has 22 apps on iOS and even 1 app on Windows Phone, while Apple has 0 on any platform except iOS.
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Price elasticity of demand is not linear.
Sure, they can handle a few CAs, but then you've switched from the CA oligopoly to a Google monopoly. A significant fraction of the web would basically be running with Google as its sole CA.
Why the vitriol? Why should we care what you think? (Seriously...why?)

Roughly half the items that appear on this feed are not news, you know.

(There's an interview with Brian Kernighan on the front page right now. Are you going to complain about that one too? Should we post complaints about every single story that we don't like, that receive a little bit of attention?)
maybe not the most correct, but the easiest way :) ... and don't truste likes :)
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That's paradoxical anyway; once the computer is connected to the Internet, it's part of it. Maybe once we get quantum storage this would be possible, but current offerings do not allow downloads to infinitely recurse.
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Besides possible fake 'credibility' boosts this may impact your Edgerank etc. thus acting like social media SEO booster. I think some external services evaluate their rankings on number of likes as well.
Yes. And when you artificially bump Chrome's page views, Chrome looks better.
Yeap, it won't drive any traffic to your website. But if your visiting an online store and you see a lot of likes under the product then this might cloud your judgement ;)
The main concern seems to be

Will they accept a lesser experience than they're used to?

And quite frankly, of course they will. Thats the beauty in having a monopoly on cell phone coverage.
What makes HN interesting is that there are a lot of stories on topics with which I am unfamiliar. Odds are that a lot of them will be uninteresting when I read or more likely skim the first article or two. Often this is because I don't have the contextual hooks to make it interesting - Clojure and closures are but two examples of topics that have become interesting from reading HN articles.

But, that's just reading the articles. Much of the value of reading HN is reading the discussions, and for myself, even more of the value I find in HN is participating in those discussions.

As a Liberal Arts graduate, I use HN to improve my writing. The constraints imposed by the topic and the feedback provided by the karma system help. Interaction with some really fucking smart people who write well helps even more.

Which reminds me that as parody the article falls flat - no article about Apple's latest at the top of the HN front page.
Respectfully, you have no idea how Windows 8's fast startup mode works. You also don't seem to know that Fast Startup is the default (so when you hit "shutdown" it actually hibernates most of the system's state).

Essentially in Windows 8 (out of the box) if you hit "Shutdown" then it logs the user out and then "hibernates" the kernel, the registry, services, drivers, and all other "system" level processes.

The computer is then ordered to power off (just like hibernate). When you turn the machine back on, a notice appears on the screen which reads "Resuming from Hibernation" and it loads the Hibernation file into active memory.

Fast Startup is essentially Hibernation without a logged in user.

Windows 8's boot times with Fast Startup enabled is very competitive to Windows 7's boot times using Hibernation (instead of "Shutdown"). It is also very comparable too as Windows 8 doesn't truly shutdown in the traditional sense.

If you boot Windows 8 without Fast Startup enabled then the boot times are very similar to Windows 7's boot times.

As I said, Windows 8 lies to you. It isn't faster, it is just pushing Hibernation in a new deceptive way in order to appear faster.
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I bought a few for an RFID project (they can read NFC/RFID with no extra hardware). Its very cool and seems well made but I couldn't really see myself using one as my personal tablet over an iPad.

I like the size though!
Voice quality has never been good on cellphones, it's actually far below even so called FM-quality, which is far below CD-quality. The microphones are capable of recording voice in a much better voice quality than what is currently transferred through the networks. Phone audio is normally extremely compressed. So called HD Audio, audio with a wider bandwidth, was actually touted as great new iPhone 5 feature, since we've all noticed that the audio quality of cell phones calls are horrible compared to the real voice or even audio recordings made by the same microphones.

VoLTE is a new technology and isn't totally ready yet, but when it is it'll enable vastly improved call quality.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/24/fraunhofer-full-hd-voice-...
Chrome is still moving up on Clicky...

http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/

I switched from Firefox to Chrome out of frustration because Firefox kept breaking the tree-style-tabs extension. I used to be a big Firefox defender before that but I gave up and moved to Chrome.
Does anyone have a transcript? I'd love to spend five minutes reading rather than thirty five minutes watching.
Out of interest, why not stick with Sparrow? It won't cease to work now that development has discontinued, or does it rely on something that Sparrow were hosting?
http://FoldableMe.com :-)
I just ran it on a particularly rank LESS document and it worked great. Nice tool.
It's probably too late to write that 'killer app' on iOS (at least without a lot of false starts and near misses), but I know anecdotally that there is still a very high demand for programmers who can write for iOS.
So the end to end build is not yet available out of the box?
I'm actually only looking for jobs between Geneva and Lausanne. My French is quite good but not fluent though I'm able (and have already) to do interviews in French.

Though I'm from London and know there's plenty jobs around here, but not as many in Suisse Romande.
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Show HN: Math.ly API is a math question & answer generator. What do you think?
Interesting. Now allocate 20GB of non-paged pool and try again.
"If you don't use vim you won't understand."

Well, thanks for your insight but that was kind of a dick way to put it. What do you think is so hard to understand about the advantage of common key-bindings between applications?

Great trade-off though. You are such a cool hacker. Too bad you have to jump through hoops to view modern HTML formatted email. Hey you've got some vim key bindings though. Totally worth it.
24:00 12-31-1927. CLOCKS WENT BACK 5 min 52 sec and 1927 actually happened twice
I know Timezone are weird, but what does this mean? This appeared in an answer on StackOverflow by Jon Skeet, which can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracting-these-two-times-in-1927-giving-a-strange-result/6841479#6841479
Yes, like cell phones, but no.

Privacy hasn't died yet. The problem isn't that Google Glass exists or that cell phones exist. The problem is awareness. The problem is the same for cell phones.
Sweet! Send us a picture when you get them.
What happened was the Kindle Fire HD series announcement. And then the Nook HD series announcement. And the continued rumors of an iPad Mini. Most people are not going to tear through a bunch of tablets. They will spend their money on the one they are willing to keep and use. And for most people, the rumor of the iPad Mini holds them back from buying anything else.
How is php worse than perl or ruby for scripting?
It's not about the speed of the call (from the consumers point of view), it's about the audio quality. Higher bandwidth will enable vastly improved audio quality.

People may not say "Gee, I wish my call was faster!", but they sure say "Gee, can you speak clearer?"/"Gee, I can't understand you" thousands of times every day due to muddy/compressed call quality due to the compressed nature of our current cell phone calling infrastructure. Apple made a big deal about the so-called HD Audio capabilities of the iPhone 5, which is still below FM (and VoLTE quality).

And while LTE may be a battery hog right now since it's so new, don't forget that 3G was way worse when it was new. Battery consumption on LTE will improve drastically quite fast. In a year or two it probably won't use much more battery than 3G does.
Show HN: Spin-a-thon fundraising platform, proof of concept
So I've been building this site: https://www.ride4ryan.com with a friend, whose brother-in-law was recently diagnosed with ALS. She's throwing a spin-a-thon fundraiser at her local gym, and wanted a place where people could register for different spin-times online, as well as donate via credit card.

Beside good karma, donators should receive different supporting products - t-shirts, wristbands etc. (if they're over a certain amount - kickstarter style).

So another HN user and I decided it'd be a great site to build for free - and if it worked well for her, something we could offer for others as well.

The site automatically creates orders for her to manage when people donate over XYZ. She can manage the products - images, description etc. And the coolest part is the dynamic spin times (all she has to do is set a few variables and the rest of it is automated).

Obviously payments are done via Stripe - directly into her bank account.

Anyway, we'd love any comments / feedback about the usability of the site and or the design, and overall concept (as a platform we could offer for people to throw spin-a-thons).

And of course - feel free to load up on some good karma if you feel the desire - we know it would be much appreciated :)
Nice. That's awesome. Had no idea Gumroad displayed the receipt in plain HTML. Oops! Foxed now, thanks for pointing it out.
I wish them all the best, but I can't say I'm optimistic. The N900 was one of the best phones I owned.
I find it hardly likely that it would be lower given you would have to factor in accidental death, suicide, murders within gun owning families, etc, and on the other side there are just the situations where owning a gun actually stopped you being shot, which are obviously much much less and often end up with the other gun owner shot, so effectively reducing that number still further. It seems fairly obvious that proximity to a deadly item increases the chance of being killed by it.
Who needs the different colored shirts in your closet?
I would prefer a tutorial on how to safely use it to another pretty high-level overview, just in the QA format this time.
The strain is caused by the explosion of the powder in the round. There really isn't anyway around it. If you are going to accelerate a projectile to speed, then you are going to get equal but opposite force on the device(per Newton's law of physics). You might be able to print a low speed, low weight projectile item like a b.b. gun.
How not to unbox an iPhone
This looks very interesting indeed. I particularly like the fact that they're not trying to replace JS by using it as a compiler for a higher level language (as with Coffee Script, Dart etc.), and also I like how they've retrofitted the interfaces for the DOM, node.js, MongoDB etc. That's a nice touch.

The lambda syntax from C# is also nice to see, and something I miss when writing JS.

I think the solo presentation is better here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-...
Nah, we'd have another POSIX OS, only worse than Linux (probably). Plus they attract different kinds of mindshare.
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Nice updates! Riffing some on what you put up, I forked and added the font and a white background line to make a gap when the lines overlap

http://bl.ocks.org/3818779
Where are the computers?
Why does TypeScript have be the answer to anything?
Wait, isn't their team like, less than a dozen people right now? Christ that's a lot of chairs. And space.
It's like the actual goal of this project is to get the ATF to take an interest in regulating 3D printers.

I agree, or just to cause trouble & get press. 2nd year law student.
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Reminds me of the holodeck. Are they working, or playing characters in a gangster/detective story?
You know what the first thing I pick up on is? Everyone is dressed nice. I don't know if that's just for the camera, but I see suits and vests all around. They look classy in a classy office. I wonder how the office would look if notch was wearing cut off shorts and a wife beater.
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